“This is my personal ‘long west journey.’ Much like Xuanzang’s legendary pilgrimage to the West, my trek through academia has been filled with trials, unexpected hurdles (mostly paper rejections and dead-end ideas), and a persistent quest for the sacred scrolls of knowledge (or at least, a PhD).”

Education

• (August 2023–August 2027 expected) Ph.D. Computer Science, Clemson University
• (May–August 2024) Visiting Student, Singapore University of Technology and Design
• (August 2021–July 2023) Ph.D. studies in Computer Science, Cleveland State University (transferred to Clemson)
• (September 2016–June 2019) M.E. Software Engineering, Xi'an Jiaotong University
• (September 2012–June 2016) B.S. Information and Computational Science, Xi'an Jiaotong University

Research Experience

• Clemson University — Trustworthiness of AI (August 2023 – Present). Advisor: Dr. Long Cheng.
• Clemson University — AI for Online Content Safety (August 2023 – Present). Advisor: Dr. Long Cheng.
• Singapore University of Technology and Design — Biometric Authentication (May – August 2024). Advisor: Dr. Jianying Zhou.
• Cleveland State University — Autonomous Vehicles and Object Detection (August 2021 – July 2023). Advisor: Dr. Hongkai Yu.
• Brookhaven National Laboratory — Collision Avoidance Systems (March 2022 – July 2023). Advisors: Dr. Yonghua Du, Dr. Lu Ma, Dr. Yuewei Lin, and Dr. Hongkai Yu.
• Xi'an Jiaotong University — Image Retrieval (September 2016 – June 2019). Advisor: Dr. Shanmin Pang.

Work Experience

• Chengdu Hsintiao Medical Technology Co., Ltd. (October 2020 – August 2021). Algorithm Engineer — ECG Signal Analysis.
• Southeast Research Institute of China Unicom (August 2019 – September 2020). R&D Engineer — Computer Vision for Environmental Monitoring.

Grant Proposal Contributions

Contributed to proposal preparation and technical narrative development for the following proposals; these entries describe proposal contributions, not awarded funding.

• NCAE-C — Towards Robust Perception Systems for Autonomous Vehicles Against Adversarial Attacks
• NSF FAIROS — Transforming Social Science Research with an AI-Agent-Enabled Open Platform
• NSF ExLENT — Exploring Generative AI Cybersecurity through Experiential Learning
• NSF SaTC — Cognitive and Sociotechnical Safeguards for Protecting Young Adults from Unsafe AI-Generated Content

Honors and Recognition

• Certificate of Appreciation (Volunteer), ACM AsiaCCS (2024)
• Badge of Recognition, The ACM Web Conference (2024)
• Excellent Graduation Thesis, Xi'an Jiaotong University (2019)
• Excellent Graduate, Xi'an Jiaotong University (2019)
• Successful Participant, National Graduate Mathematical Contest in Modeling (China, 2018)
• Zhonghui Scholarship, Xi'an Jiaotong University (2018)